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Film is huge on Reddit, with more than 500 subreddits dedicated to movies. And what better time to debate and discuss film than during the Oscars, the world’s most-watched awards show? The business of predicting the winners is so booming that it’s genuinely shocking when the evening’s statuettes go to truly surprising winners.

But how would it play out if the Academy Awards happened on Reddit? Since the Oscars nominees were announced, we’ve been tracking keyword volume for the most popular films, actors, and directors on the platform who were nominated this year… the conversation drivers that stuck with you long enough to champion, troll, and shitpost. Below are this year’s big categories, with nominees ranked based on the highest percentage share of mentions in posts and comments against one another.

(data below is Keyword Volume count across all of Reddit, tracked since nominations day. Source: Reddit Internal, Global, 1/23/24–3/5/24)

Best Picture

1. Barbie: 44%
2. Oppenheimer: 18%
3. Maestro: 9%
4. Poor Things: 8%
5. Past Lives: 7%
6. Killers of the Flower Moon: 3%
7. The Holdovers: 3%
8. Anatomy of a Fall: 3%
9. American Fiction: 3%
10. The Zone of Interest: 2%

Best Director

1. Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer: 53%
2. Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon: 25%
3. Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things: 10%
4. Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall: 6%
5. Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest: 6%

Best Actor

1. Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer: 36%
2. Bradley Cooper, Maestro: 32%
3. Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers: 18%
4. Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction: 8%
5. Colman Domingo, Rustin: 6%

Best Actress

1. Emma Stone, Poor Things: 68%
2. Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon: 14%
3. Carey Mulligan, Maestro: 8%
4. Sandra Huller, Anatomy of a Fall: 6%
5. Annette Bening, Nyad: 4%

Supporting Actor

1. Ryan Gosling, Barbie: 52%
2. Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer: 17%
3. Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon: 15%
4. Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things; 12%
5. Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction: 4%

Supporting Actress

1. Jodie Foster, Nyad: 47%
2. Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer: 29%
3. America Ferrera, Barbie: 17%
4. Da’vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers: 4%
5. Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple: 3%

Either way the trophies go, there’s gonna be lots to discuss all over Reddit, and if you need some places to gossip, gripe and get into all the action, here are some subreddits that will be running megathreads during Oscars night:

r/Movies - The largest subreddit for the love of film

r/TheBigPicture - Oscars talk from your favorite film podcast

r/popculturechat - From red carpet hits and misses to show analysis

r/Fauxmoi - Your new favorite subreddit for celeb gossip

The TL;DR on this year’s show: Jimmy Kimmel is hosting for the fourth time, which, sure! Oppenheimer is probably going to win Best Picture and turn many more of its 13 nominations into wins. Poor Things has 11 nods, Killers of the Flower Moon has 10 and Saltburn still has nothing, which Hillary Clinton has remained dead silent on! The equally snubbed Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig will be asked to watch Ryan Gosling perform “I’m Just Ken”, because the Academy chose chaos in 2017 and have chosen chaos every year since…

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Who do you want to take home Oscars gold? Still want justice for this year’s biggest snubs? Do you think the most popular actors and films on Reddit will be the same the Academy chooses? Let us know in the comments!

EDIT: fixed formatting